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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through IV. On the Balinese Theater.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the painter whom Artaud writes of in "Metaphysics and the Mise en Scene"?
(a) Hans Vernswarth.
(b) Lucas van den Leyden.
(c) Andres Michaeleas.
(d) Pablo Picasso.

2. What word expressed by the translator is typically translated as "mind" because it has no English equivalent, combining as it does both mind and spirit?
(a) Esprit.
(b) Jouissis.
(c) Rioutet.
(d) L'amour.

3. Balinese theater realizes an extreme and pure version of theater, through which everything exists only because of what?
(a) It is real.
(b) It is anarchy.
(c) It is abstract.
(d) It exists on stage.

4. Artaud writes, "Compared with the murderer's fury which exhausts itself, that of the ______ remains enclosed within a perfect circle."
(a) "Comedian."
(b) "Tragic actor."
(c) "Poet."
(d) "Director."

5. What is the duration of all of the great plagues, according to Artaud?
(a) Six years.
(b) One year.
(c) Five years.
(d) Five months.

Short Answer Questions

1. Alchemy uses what to reflect physical operations at a spiritual level?

2. In the Balinese theater, all sounds are linked to what?

3. Artaud writes that "the symbols of alchemy provide the spiritual means of decanting and transfusing matter and must have evoked the passionate and decisive transfusion of matter by ____."

4. Describing the Balinese theater, Artaud writes, "And there is in the truly terrifying look of their devil (probably Tibetan) a striking similarity to the look of a certain ______ in our own remembrance."

5. In "The Alchemical Theater," Artaud writes, "All true alchemists know that the alchemical symbol is a _____ as the theater is a ______.

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